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For the 1977 book by E.F. Schumacher, see <a href="/wiki/A_Guide_for_the_Perplexed" title="A Guide for the Perplexed">A Guide for the Perplexed</a>. 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font-style:italic; padding-bottom:0.2em;">The Guide for the Perplexed <span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Guide+for+the+Perplexed&rft.author=%5B%5BMoses+Maimonides%5D%5D&rft.date=%3Cabbr+title%3D%22circa%22%3Ec.%3C%2Fabbr%3E%3Cspan+style%3D%22white-space%3Anowrap%3B%22%3E%26thinsp%3B1190%3C%2Fspan%3E&rft.place=%5B%5BAyyubid+dynasty%7CAyyubid+Empire%5D%5D"></span></caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Manuscript_page_by_Maimonides_Arabic_in_Hebrew_letters.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Manuscript_page_by_Maimonides_Arabic_in_Hebrew_letters.jpg/220px-Manuscript_page_by_Maimonides_Arabic_in_Hebrew_letters.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="240" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Manuscript_page_by_Maimonides_Arabic_in_Hebrew_letters.jpg/330px-Manuscript_page_by_Maimonides_Arabic_in_Hebrew_letters.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Manuscript_page_by_Maimonides_Arabic_in_Hebrew_letters.jpg/440px-Manuscript_page_by_Maimonides_Arabic_in_Hebrew_letters.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1129" data-file-height="1234" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Maimonides' <a href="/wiki/Autograph_(manuscript)" title="Autograph (manuscript)">autograph</a> draft of <i>Dalālat al-ḥā'irīn</i>, written in Standard Arabic with Hebrew script, from the <a href="/wiki/Cairo_Genizah" class="mw-redirect" title="Cairo Genizah">Cairo Genizah</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Author</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Moses_Maimonides" class="mw-redirect" title="Moses Maimonides">Moses Maimonides</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Original title</th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Hebrew-language text"><i lang="he"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886049405">.mw-parser-output .noitalic{font-style:normal}</style><span class="noitalic"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1241449095">.mw-parser-output .script-hebrew,.mw-parser-output .script-Hebr{font-family:"Ezra SIL SR","Ezra SIL","SBL Hebrew","Taamey Frank CLM","SBL BibLit","Taamey Ashkenaz","Frank Ruehl CLM","Keter Aram Tsova","Taamey David CLM","Keter YG","Shofar","David CLM","Hadasim CLM","Simple CLM","Nachlieli",Cardo,Alef,"Noto Serif Hebrew","Noto Sans Hebrew","David Libre",David,"Times New Roman",Gisha,Arial,FreeSerif,FreeSans}</style><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">דלאלת אלחאירין</span>‎</span></i></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Language</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Judeo-Arabic_languages" class="mw-redirect" title="Judeo-Arabic languages">Judeo-Arabic</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genre</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Jewish_philosophy" title="Jewish philosophy">Jewish philosophy</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Publication date</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1190</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publication place</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ayyubid_dynasty" title="Ayyubid dynasty">Ayyubid Empire</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Published in English</div></th><td class="infobox-data">1881</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Media type</th><td class="infobox-data">Manuscript</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Dewey_Decimal_Classification" title="Dewey Decimal Classification">Dewey Decimal</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">181.06</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/LCC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="LCC (identifier)"><abbr title="Library of Congress Classification">LC Class</abbr></a></th><td class="infobox-data">BM545 .D3413</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Text</th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Guide_for_the_Perplexed_(1904)" class="extiw" title="s:The Guide for the Perplexed (1904)">The Guide for the Perplexed</a></i> at <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>The Guide for the Perplexed</b></i> (<a href="/wiki/Judeo-Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Judeo-Arabic language">Judeo-Arabic</a>: <span lang="jrb" dir="rtl">דלאלת אלחאירין</span>, <small>romanized: </small><span title="Judeo-Arabic-language romanization"><i lang="jrb-Latn">Dalālat al-ḥā'irīn</i></span>; <a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a>: <span lang="ar" dir="rtl">دلالة الحائرين</span>, <small><a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Arabic" title="Romanization of Arabic">romanized</a>: </small><span title="Arabic-language romanization"><i lang="ar-Latn">Dalālat al-ḥā'irīn</i></span>; <a href="/wiki/Hebrew_language" title="Hebrew language">Hebrew</a>: <span lang="he" dir="rtl">מורה הנבוכים</span>, <small><a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Hebrew" title="Romanization of Hebrew">romanized</a>: </small><span title="Hebrew-language romanization"><i lang="he-Latn">Moreh HaNevukhim</i></span>) is a work of <a href="/wiki/Jewish_theology" class="mw-redirect" title="Jewish theology">Jewish theology</a> by <a href="/wiki/Maimonides" title="Maimonides">Maimonides</a>. It seeks to reconcile <a href="/wiki/Aristotelianism" title="Aristotelianism">Aristotelianism</a> with Rabbinical Jewish theology by finding rational explanations for many events in the text. </p><p>It was written in <a href="/wiki/Judeo-Arabic_dialects" class="mw-redirect" title="Judeo-Arabic dialects">Judeo-Arabic</a>, a dialect of <a href="/wiki/Classical_Arabic" title="Classical Arabic">Classical Arabic</a> using the <a href="/wiki/Hebrew_alphabet" title="Hebrew alphabet">Hebrew alphabet</a>. It was sent originally, part after part, to his student, Rabbi <a href="/wiki/Joseph_ben_Judah_of_Ceuta" title="Joseph ben Judah of Ceuta">Joseph ben Judah of Ceuta</a>, the son of Rabbi Judah, and is the main source of Maimonides' philosophical views, as opposed to his opinions on <a href="/wiki/Halakha" title="Halakha">Jewish law</a>. </p><p>Since many of the philosophical concepts, such as his view of <a href="/wiki/Theodicy" title="Theodicy">theodicy</a> and the relationship between <a href="/wiki/Philosophy" title="Philosophy">philosophy</a> and <a href="/wiki/Religion" title="Religion">religion</a>, are relevant beyond Judaism, it has been the work most commonly associated with Maimonides in the non-Jewish world and it is known to have influenced several major non-Jewish philosophers.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following its publication, "almost every philosophic work for the remainder of the <a href="/wiki/Middle_Ages" title="Middle Ages">Middle Ages</a> cited, commented on, or criticized Maimonides' views."<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Within <a href="/wiki/Judaism" title="Judaism">Judaism</a>, the <i>Guide</i> became widely popular, with many <a href="/wiki/Jew" class="mw-redirect" title="Jew">Jewish</a> communities requesting copies of the manuscript, but also <a href="/wiki/Maimonidean_Controversy" title="Maimonidean Controversy">quite controversial</a>, with some communities limiting its study or banning it altogether. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Contents">Contents</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Guide_for_the_Perplexed&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Contents"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Guide_for_the_Perplexed_by_Maimonides.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Guide_for_the_Perplexed_by_Maimonides.jpg/220px-Guide_for_the_Perplexed_by_Maimonides.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="308" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Guide_for_the_Perplexed_by_Maimonides.jpg/330px-Guide_for_the_Perplexed_by_Maimonides.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Guide_for_the_Perplexed_by_Maimonides.jpg/440px-Guide_for_the_Perplexed_by_Maimonides.jpg 2x" data-file-width="549" data-file-height="768" /></a><figcaption>Cover of a print version</figcaption></figure> <p><i>The Guide for the Perplexed</i> was originally written sometime between 1185 and 1190 by Maimonides in <a href="/wiki/Judeo-Arabic" title="Judeo-Arabic">Judeo-Arabic</a> (Classical Arabic using the Hebrew alphabet). It was first translated in 1204 into Hebrew by a contemporary of Maimonides, <a href="/wiki/Samuel_ibn_Tibbon" title="Samuel ibn Tibbon">Samuel ibn Tibbon</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-WDL1_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WDL1-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The work is divided into three parts. According to Maimonides, he wrote the <i>Guide</i> "to enlighten a religious man who has been trained to believe in the truth of our holy Law, who conscientiously fulfills his moral and religious duties, and at the same time has been successful in his philosophical studies." </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>This work has also a second object in view: It seeks to explain certain obscure figures which occur in the Prophets, and are not distinctly characterized as being figures. Ignorant and superficial readers take them in a literal, not in a figurative sense. Even well-informed persons are bewildered if they understand these passages in their literal signification, but they are entirely relieved of their perplexity when we explain the figure, or merely suggest that the terms are figurative. For this reason I have called this book <i>Guide for the Perplexed</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Friedlander_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Friedlander-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Also, he made a systematic exposition on <i>Maaseh Bereishit</i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Merkabah_mysticism" title="Merkabah mysticism">Merkabah mysticism</a></i>, works of <a href="/wiki/Kabbalah#Mystic_Doctrines_in_Talmudic_Times" title="Kabbalah">Jewish mysticism</a> regarding the <a href="/wiki/Theology" title="Theology">theology</a> of <a href="/wiki/Creation_myth" title="Creation myth">creation</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Genesis" title="Book of Genesis">Book of Genesis</a> and the chariot passage from the <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Ezekiel" title="Book of Ezekiel">Book of Ezekiel</a>—these being the two main mystical texts in the <a href="/wiki/Tanakh" class="mw-redirect" title="Tanakh">Tanakh</a>. This analysis occurs in the third part, and from this perspective, the issues raised in the first two parts are there to provide background and a progression in the mystical and philosophical knowledge required to ponder the climax. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_opening_letter">The opening letter</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Guide_for_the_Perplexed&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: The opening letter"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The book begins with a letter from Maimonides to his dear student, Rabbi <a href="/wiki/Joseph_ben_Judah" class="mw-redirect" title="Joseph ben Judah">Joseph ben Judah</a> of Ceuta. Maimonides praises his student's sharp comprehension and eagerness to acquire knowledge. </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Then when God decreed our separation and you betook yourself elsewhere, these meetings aroused in me a resolution that had slackened. Your absence moved me to compose this Treatise, which I have composed for you and for those like you, however few they are. I have set it down in dispersed chapters. All of them that are written down will reach you where you are, one after the other.</p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_first_part">The first part</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Guide_for_the_Perplexed&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: The first part"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:14c_ed_of_the_Guide_for_the_Perplexed_by_Maimonides.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/14c_ed_of_the_Guide_for_the_Perplexed_by_Maimonides.jpg/220px-14c_ed_of_the_Guide_for_the_Perplexed_by_Maimonides.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="310" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/14c_ed_of_the_Guide_for_the_Perplexed_by_Maimonides.jpg/330px-14c_ed_of_the_Guide_for_the_Perplexed_by_Maimonides.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/14c_ed_of_the_Guide_for_the_Perplexed_by_Maimonides.jpg/440px-14c_ed_of_the_Guide_for_the_Perplexed_by_Maimonides.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="1441" /></a><figcaption>A page from a 14th-century manuscript of the <i>Guide</i>. The figure seated on the chair with <a href="/wiki/Star_of_David" title="Star of David">Stars of David</a> is thought to be <a href="/wiki/Aristotle" title="Aristotle">Aristotle</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>The part begins with Maimonides' thesis of the unity, omnipresence, and incorporeality of God, explaining biblical <a href="/wiki/Anthropomorphism" title="Anthropomorphism">anthropomorphism</a> of divine attributes as homonymous or figurative. The first chapter explains the Genesis 1 description of Adam the first as in the "<a href="/wiki/Image_of_God" title="Image of God">image of God</a>", as referring to the intellectual perception of humankind rather than physical form. In the Bible, one can find many expressions that refer to God in human terms, for instance the "hand of God". Maimonides strongly opposed what he believed to be a <a href="/wiki/Heresy" title="Heresy">heresy</a> present in unlearned Jews who then assume God to be corporeal (or even possessing positive characteristics). </p><p>To explain his belief that this is not the case, Maimonides devoted more than 20 chapters in the beginning (and middle) of the first part to analyzing Hebrew terms. Each chapter was about a term used to refer to God (such as "mighty") and, in each case, Maimonides presented a case that the word is a <a href="/wiki/Homonym" title="Homonym">homonym</a>, whereby its usage when referring to a physical entity is completely different from when referring to God. This was done by close <a href="/wiki/Content_analysis" title="Content analysis">textual analysis</a> of the word in the Tanakh in order to present what Maimonides saw as the proof that according to the Tanakh, God is completely incorporeal: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>[The <a href="/wiki/Rambam" class="mw-redirect" title="Rambam">Rambam</a>] set up the incorporeality of God as a dogma, and placed any person who denied this doctrine upon a level with an idolater; he devoted much of the first part of the <i>Moreh Nevukhim</i> to the interpretation of the Biblical anthropomorphisms, endeavoring to define the meaning of each and to identify it with some transcendental metaphysical expression. Some of them are explained by him as perfect homonyms, denoting two or more absolutely distinct things; others, as imperfect homonyms, employed in some instances figuratively and in others homonymously.”<sup id="cite_ref-JE_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JE-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>This leads to Maimonides' notion that God cannot be described in any positive terms, but rather only in <a href="/wiki/Negative_theology#In_the_Jewish_tradition" class="mw-redirect" title="Negative theology">negative conceptions</a>. <i>The Jewish Encyclopedia</i> notes his view that "As to His essence, the only way to describe it is negatively. For instance, He is not physical, nor bound by time, nor subject to change, etc. These assertions do not involve any incorrect notions or assume any deficiency, while if positive essential attributes are admitted it may be assumed that other things coexisted with Him from eternity."<sup id="cite_ref-JE_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JE-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Unrestrained anthropomorphism and perception of positive attributes is seen as a transgression as serious as <a href="/wiki/Idolatry" title="Idolatry">idolatry</a>, because both are fundamental errors in the metaphysics of God's role in the universe, and that is the most important aspect of the world. </p><p>The first part also contains an analysis of the reasons why philosophy and mysticism are taught late in the Jewish tradition, and only to a few. Maimonides cites many examples of what he sees as the incapability of the masses of understanding these concepts. Thus, approaching them with a mind that is not yet learned in <a href="/wiki/Torah" title="Torah">Torah</a> and other Jewish texts can lead to heresy and the transgressions considered the most serious by Maimonides. </p><p>The part ends (Chapters 73–76) with Maimonides' protracted exposition and criticism of a number of principles and methods identified with the schools of <a href="/wiki/Jewish_Kalam" title="Jewish Kalam">Jewish Kalam</a> and <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Kalam" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic Kalam">Islamic Kalam</a>, including the argument for creation <i><a href="/wiki/Ex_nihilo" class="mw-redirect" title="Ex nihilo">ex nihilo</a></i> and the unity and incorporeality of God. While he accepts the conclusions of the Kalam school (because of their consistency with Judaism), he disagrees with their methods and points out many perceived flaws in their arguments: "Maimonides exposes the weakness of these propositions, which he regards as founded not on a basis of positive facts, but on mere fiction ... Maimonides criticizes especially the tenth proposition of the <i>Mutakallimīn</i>, according to which everything that is conceivable by imagination is admissible: e.g., that the terrestrial globe should become the all-encompassing sphere, or that this sphere should become the terrestrial globe."<sup id="cite_ref-JE_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JE-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_second_part">The second part</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Guide_for_the_Perplexed&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: The second part"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The second part begins with 26 propositions from <a href="/wiki/Metaphysics_(Aristotle)" title="Metaphysics (Aristotle)">Aristotle's metaphysics</a>, of which Maimonides accepts 25 as having been conclusively demonstrated, rejecting only the proposition that holds the universe to be eternal. The exposition of the physical structure of the universe, as seen by Maimonides. The world-view asserted in the work is essentially Aristotelian, with a spherical Earth in the centre, surrounded by concentric <a href="/wiki/Celestial_spheres" title="Celestial spheres">Heavenly Spheres</a>. While Aristotle's view with respect to the eternity of the universe is rejected, Maimonides extensively borrows his proofs of the existence of God and his concepts such as the <a href="/wiki/Cosmological_argument" title="Cosmological argument">Prime Mover</a>: "But as Maimonides recognizes the authority of Aristotle in all matters concerning the sublunary world, he proceeds to show that the Biblical account of the creation of the nether world is in perfect accord with Aristotelian views. Explaining its language as allegorical and the terms employed as homonyms, he summarizes the first chapter of Genesis thus: God created the universe by producing on the first day the <i>reshit</i> (Intelligence) from which the spheres derived their existence and motion and thus became the source of the existence of the entire universe."<sup id="cite_ref-JE_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JE-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A novel point is that Maimonides connects natural forces<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and heavenly spheres with the concept of an <a href="/wiki/Angel" title="Angel">angel</a>: these are seen as the same thing. The Spheres are essentially pure Intelligences who receive power from the Prime Mover. This energy overflows from each one to the next and finally reaches earth and the physical domain. This concept of intelligent spheres of existence also appears in <a href="/wiki/Gnosticism" title="Gnosticism">Gnostic Christianity</a> as <a href="/wiki/Aeon#In_philosophy_and_mysticism" title="Aeon">Aeons</a>, having been conceived at least eight hundred years before Maimonides. Maimonides' immediate source was probably <a href="/wiki/Avicenna" title="Avicenna">Avicenna</a>, who may in turn have been influenced by the very similar scheme in <a href="/wiki/Isma%27ilism" title="Isma'ilism">Isma'ili Islam</a>. This leads into a brief exposition of Creation as outlined in Genesis and theories about the possible <a href="/wiki/Eschatology" title="Eschatology">end of the world</a>. </p><p>The second major part of the part is the discussion of the concept of <a href="/wiki/Prophecy" title="Prophecy">prophecy</a>. Maimonides departs from the orthodox view in that he emphasizes the intellectual aspect of prophecy: According to this view, prophesy occurs when a vision is ascertained in the imagination, and then interpreted through the intellect of the prophet. In Maimonides view, many aspects of descriptions of prophesy are metaphor. All stories of God speaking with a prophet, with the exception of Moses, are metaphors for the interpretation of a vision. While a perfected "imaginative faculty" is required, and indicated through the behavior of the prophet, the intellect is also required. Maimonides insists that all prophesy, excepting that of Moses, occurs through natural law. Maimonides also states that the descriptions of nation-wide prophesy at Mount Sinai in Exodus are metaphors for the apprehension of logical proofs. For example, he gives the following interpretation: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>[I]n the speech of Isaiah, ... it very frequently occurs ... that when he speaks of the fall of a dynasty or the destruction of a great religious community, he uses such expressions as: the stars have fallen, the heavens were rolled up, the sun was blackened, the earth was devastated and quaked, and many similar figurative expressions (II.29).<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Maimonides outlines 11 levels of prophecy, with that of <a href="/wiki/Moses" title="Moses">Moses</a> being beyond the highest, and thus most unimpeded. Subsequent lower levels reduce the immediacy between God and prophet, allowing prophecies through increasingly external and indirect factors such as angels and dreams. Finally, the language and nature of the prophetic books of the Bible are described. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_third_part">The third part</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Guide_for_the_Perplexed&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: The third part"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Guiaperplexos_202a.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Guiaperplexos_202a.jpg/220px-Guiaperplexos_202a.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="298" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Guiaperplexos_202a.jpg/330px-Guiaperplexos_202a.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Guiaperplexos_202a.jpg/440px-Guiaperplexos_202a.jpg 2x" data-file-width="830" data-file-height="1124" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> <p>The beginning of the third part is described as the climax of the whole work. This is the exposition of the mystical passage of the Chariot found in Ezekiel. Traditionally, Jewish law viewed this passage as extremely sensitive, and in theory, did not allow it to be taught explicitly at all. The only way to learn it properly was if a student had enough knowledge and wisdom to be able to interpret their teacher's hints by themselves, in which case the teacher was allowed to teach them indirectly. In practice, however, the mass of detailed rabbinic writings on this subject often crosses the line from hint to detailed teachings. </p><p>After justifying this "crossing of the line" from hints to direct instruction, Maimonides explains the basic mystical concepts via the Biblical terms referring to Spheres, elements and Intelligences. In these chapters, however, there is still very little in terms of direct explanation. </p><p>This is followed by an analysis of the <a href="/wiki/Morality" title="Morality">moral</a> aspects of the universe. Maimonides deals with the <a href="/wiki/Problem_of_evil" title="Problem of evil">problem of evil</a> (for which people are considered to be responsible because of <a href="/wiki/Free_will" title="Free will">free will</a>), trials and tests (especially those of <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Job" title="Book of Job">Job</a> and the story of the <a href="/wiki/Binding_of_Isaac" title="Binding of Isaac">Binding of Isaac</a>) as well as other aspects traditionally attached to God in theology, such as <a href="/wiki/Divine_Providence" class="mw-redirect" title="Divine Providence">providence</a> and <a href="/wiki/Omniscience" title="Omniscience">omniscience</a>: "Maimonides endeavors to show that evil has no positive existence, but is a privation of a certain capacity and does not proceed from God; when, therefore, evils are mentioned in Scripture as sent by God, the Scriptural expressions must be explained allegorically. Indeed, says Maimonides, all existing evils, with the exception of some which have their origin in the laws of production and destruction and which are rather an expression of God's mercy, since by them the species are perpetuated, are created by men themselves."<sup id="cite_ref-JE_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JE-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Maimonides then explains his views on the reasons for the <a href="/wiki/613_mitzvot" class="mw-redirect" title="613 mitzvot">613 mitzvot</a>, the 613 laws contained within the five books of Moses. Maimonides divides these laws into 14 sections—the same as in his <a href="/wiki/Mishneh_Torah" title="Mishneh Torah">Mishneh Torah</a>. However, he departs from traditional Rabbinic explanations in favour of a more physical/<a href="/wiki/Pragmatism" title="Pragmatism">pragmatic</a> approach by explaining the purpose of the commandments (especially of <a href="/wiki/Korban" title="Korban">sacrifices</a>) as intending to help wean the Israelites away from idolatry.<sup id="cite_ref-klein_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-klein-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Having culminated with the <a href="/wiki/Ten_Commandments" title="Ten Commandments">commandments</a>, Maimonides concludes the work with the notion of the perfect and harmonious life, founded on the correct worship of God. The possession of a correct philosophy underlying Judaism (as outlined in the Guide) is seen as being an essential aspect in true wisdom. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Guide_for_the_Perplexed&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>While many Jewish communities revered Maimonides' work and viewed it as a triumph, others deemed many of its ideas <a href="/wiki/Heresy" title="Heresy">heretical</a>. The Guide was often banned and, in some occasions, even burned.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In particular, the adversaries of Maimonides' <a href="/wiki/Mishneh_Torah" title="Mishneh Torah">Mishneh Torah</a> declared war against the "Guide". His views concerning angels, prophecy, and miracles—and especially his assertion that he would have had no difficulty in reconciling the biblical account of the creation with the doctrine of the eternity of the universe, had the <a href="/wiki/Aristotelianism" title="Aristotelianism">Aristotelian</a> proofs for it been conclusive<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>—provoked the indignation of his coreligionists.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Likewise, some (most famously Rabbi <a href="/wiki/Abraham_ben_David" title="Abraham ben David">Abraham ben David</a>, known as the RaBad) objected to Maimonides' raising the notion of the incorporeality of God as a <a href="/wiki/Dogma" title="Dogma">dogma</a>, claiming that great and wise men of previous generations held a different view.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In modern-day Jewish circles, controversies regarding Aristotelian thought are significantly less heated, and, over time, many of Maimonides' ideas have become authoritative. As such, the book is seen as a legitimate and canonical, if somewhat abstruse, religious masterpiece. </p><p>The Guide had great influence in Christian thought, both <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Aquinas" title="Thomas Aquinas">Thomas Aquinas</a> and <a href="/wiki/Duns_Scotus" title="Duns Scotus">Duns Scotus</a> making extensive use of it: the negative theology contained in it also influenced mystics such as <a href="/wiki/Meister_Eckhart" title="Meister Eckhart">Meister Eckhart</a>. Due to The Guide's influence on Western Christian thought, it has been regarded as a "Jewish-scholastic <i>Summa.</i>" <sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was massively used in—and disseminated through—<a href="/wiki/Raymond_Martini" title="Raymond Martini">Ramon Martí</a>'s <i>Pugio Fidei</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was also read and commented on in Islamic circles, and remains in print in Arab countries.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Several decades after Maimonides' death, a Muslim philosopher by the name of Muhammad ibn Abi-Bakr Al-Tabrizi wrote a commentary in <a href="/wiki/Arabic" title="Arabic">Arabic</a> on the first 25 propositions (out of 26) of Book Two, leaving out the last one, which states that the universe is eternal. The extant manuscript of the commentary was written in 677AH (1278 CE), and states that it was copied from a copy in Maimonides' own hand writing. The commentary was printed in Cairo in 1949.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Analysis">Analysis</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Guide_for_the_Perplexed&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Analysis"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Guide_of_the_Perplexed.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Guide_of_the_Perplexed.jpg/220px-Guide_of_the_Perplexed.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="182" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Guide_of_the_Perplexed.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="308" data-file-height="255" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> <p>By Maimonides' own design, most readers of the <i>Guide</i> have come to the conclusion that his beliefs were orthodox, i.e. in line with the thinking of most rabbis of his day.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> He wrote that his Guide was addressed to only a select and educated readership, and that he is proposing ideas that are deliberately concealed from the masses. He writes in the introduction: </p> <blockquote><p>No intelligent man will require and expect that on introducing any subject I shall completely exhaust it; or that on commencing the exposition of a figure I shall fully explain all its parts.<sup id="cite_ref-Friedlander_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Friedlander-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>and: </p> <blockquote><p>My object in adopting this arrangement is that the truths should be at one time apparent and at another time concealed. Thus we shall not be in opposition to the Divine Will (from which it is wrong to deviate) which has withheld from the multitude the truths required for the knowledge of God, according to the words, 'The secret of the Lord is with them that fear Him (Psalm 25:14)'<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marvin_Fox&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Marvin Fox (page does not exist)">Marvin Fox</a> comments on this: </p> <blockquote><p>It is one of the mysteries of our intellectual history that these explicit statements of Maimonides, together with his other extensive instructions on how to read his book, have been so widely ignored. No author could have been more open in informing his readers that they were confronting no ordinary book.<sup id="cite_ref-fox_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fox-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 7">: 7 </span></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Marvin Fox writes further: </p> <blockquote><p>In his introduction to the Guide Maimonides speaks repeatedly of the "secret" doctrine that must be set forth in a way appropriate to its secret character. Rabbinic law, to which Maimonides as a loyal Jew is committed, prohibits any direct, public teaching of the secrets of the Torah. One is permitted to teach these only in private to selected students of proven competence ... It would seem that there is no way to write such a book without violating rabbinic law ... Yet at times it is urgent to teach a body of sound doctrine to those who require it ... The problem is to find a method for writing such book in a way that does not violate Jewish law while conveying its message successfully to those who are properly qualified.<sup id="cite_ref-fox_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fox-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 5">: 5 </span></sup></p></blockquote> <p>According to Fox, Maimonides carefully assembled the Guide "so as to protect people without a sound scientific and philosophical education from doctrines that they cannot understand and that would only harm them, while making the truths available to students with the proper personal and intellectual preparation."<sup id="cite_ref-fox_19-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fox-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 6">: 6 </span></sup> </p><p><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aviezer_Ravitzky&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Aviezer Ravitzky (page does not exist)">Aviezer Ravitzky</a> writes: </p> <blockquote><p>Those who upheld a radical interpretation of the secrets of the Guide, from Joseph Caspi and Moses Narboni in the 14th century to <a href="/wiki/Leo_Strauss" title="Leo Strauss">Leo Strauss</a> and <a href="/wiki/Shlomo_Pines" title="Shlomo Pines">Shlomo Pines</a> in the 20th, proposed and developed tools and methods for the decoding of the concealed intentions of the Guide. Can we already find the roots of this approach in the writings of <a href="/wiki/Samuel_ben_Judah_ibn_Tibbon" class="mw-redirect" title="Samuel ben Judah ibn Tibbon">Samuel ben Judah ibn Tibbon</a>, a few years after the writing of the Guide? ... Ibn Tibbon's comments reveal his general approach toward the nature of the contradictions in the Guide: The interpreter need not be troubled by contradiction when one assertion is consistent with the "philosophic view" whereas the other is completely satisfactory to "men of religion". Such contradictions are to be expected, and the worthy reader will know the reason for them and the direction they tend to ... The correct reading of the Guide's chapters should be carried out in two complementary directions: on the one hand, one should distinguish each chapter from the rest, and on the other one should combine different chapters and construct out of them a single topic. Again, on the one hand, one should get to the bottom of the specific subject matter of each chapter, its specific "innovation", an innovation not necessarily limited to the explicit subject matter of the chapter. On the other hand, one should combine scattered chapters which allude to one single topic so as to reconstruct the full scope of the topic.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Translations">Translations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Guide_for_the_Perplexed&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Translations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The original version of the Guide was written in <a href="/wiki/Judeo-Arabic_languages" class="mw-redirect" title="Judeo-Arabic languages">Judaeo-Arabic</a>. The first <a href="/wiki/Hebrew_language" title="Hebrew language">Hebrew</a> translation (titled <i>Moreh HaNevukhim</i>) was written in 1204 by a contemporary of Maimonides, <a href="/wiki/Samuel_ben_Judah_ibn_Tibbon" class="mw-redirect" title="Samuel ben Judah ibn Tibbon">Samuel ben Judah ibn Tibbon</a> in southern France. This Hebrew edition has been used for many centuries. A new, modern edition of this translation was published in 2019 by <a href="/wiki/Feldheim_Publishers" title="Feldheim Publishers">Feldheim Publishers</a>. Another translation, which most scholars see as inferior, though more user-friendly, was that of <a href="/wiki/Judah_al-Harizi" class="mw-redirect" title="Judah al-Harizi">Judah al-Harizi</a>. </p><p>A first complete translation in Latin (<i>Rabbi Mossei Aegyptii Dux seu Director dubitantium aut perplexorum</i>) was printed in Paris by <a href="/wiki/Agostino_Giustiniani" title="Agostino Giustiniani">Agostino Giustiniani/Augustinus Justinianus</a> in 1520. </p><p>A French translation accompanied the first critical edition, published by Salomon Munk in three volumes from 1856 (<span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">Le Guide des égarés: Traité de Théologie et de Philosophie par Moïse ben Maimoun dit Maïmonide. Publié Pour la première fois dans l'arabe original et accompagné d'une traduction française et notes des critiques littéraires et explicatives par S. Munk</i></span>). </p><p>The first complete English translation was <i>The Guide for the Perplexed</i>, by <a href="/wiki/Michael_Friedl%C3%A4nder" title="Michael Friedländer">Michael Friedländer</a>, with Mr. Joseph Abrahams and Reverend H. Gollancz, dates from 1881. It was originally published in a three volume edition with footnotes. In 1904 it was republished in a less expensive one volume edition, without footnotes, with revisions. The second edition is still in use today, sold through <a href="/wiki/Dover_Publications" title="Dover Publications">Dover Publications</a>. Despite the age of this publication it still has a good reputation, as Friedländer had solid command of Judeao-Arabic and remained particularly faithful to the literal text of Maimonides' work.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Another translation to English was made by <a href="/wiki/Chaim_Rabin" class="mw-redirect" title="Chaim Rabin">Chaim Rabin</a> in 1952, also published in an abridged edition.<sup id="cite_ref-isbn0-87220-324-7_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-isbn0-87220-324-7-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The most popular English translation is the two-volume set <i>The Guide of the Perplexed</i>, translated by <a href="/wiki/Shlomo_Pines" title="Shlomo Pines">Shlomo Pines</a>, with an extensive introductory essay by <a href="/wiki/Leo_Strauss" title="Leo Strauss">Leo Strauss</a>, published in 1963.<sup id="cite_ref-isbn0-226-50230-9_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-isbn0-226-50230-9-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A new English translation published by <a href="/wiki/Lenn_E._Goodman" title="Lenn E. Goodman">Lenn E. Goodman</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Phillip_I._Lieberman&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Phillip I. Lieberman (page does not exist)">Phillip I. Lieberman</a> of <a href="/wiki/Vanderbilt_University" title="Vanderbilt University">Vanderbilt University</a> was published in 2024. This edition attempts to highlight the conversational, emotionally resonant tone of the original text. </p><p>A modern translation to Hebrew was written by <a href="/wiki/Yosef_Qafih" title="Yosef Qafih">Yosef Qafih</a> and published by <a href="/wiki/Mossad_Harav_Kook" title="Mossad Harav Kook">Mossad Harav Kook</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a>, 1977. A new modern Hebrew translation has been written by Prof. Michael Schwartz, <a href="/wiki/Professor#Other_positions" title="Professor">professor emeritus</a> of <a href="/wiki/Tel_Aviv_University" title="Tel Aviv University">Tel Aviv University</a>'s departments of Jewish philosophy and Arabic language and literature.<sup id="cite_ref-Shwartz_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shwartz-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Mishneh Torah Project</i> published another Hebrew edition between 2018 and 2021, translated by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Hillel_Gershuni&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hillel Gershuni (page does not exist)">Hillel Gershuni</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/w/index.php?title=M%C3%B3r_Klein&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mór Klein (page does not exist)">Mór Klein</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_M%C3%B3r_(rabbi)" class="extiw" title="hu:Klein Mór (rabbi)">hu</a>]</span> (1842–1915), the rabbi of <a href="/wiki/Zrenjanin" title="Zrenjanin">Nagybecskerek</a> translated it to Hungarian and published it in multiple volumes between 1878 and 1890.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Arabic original was published from Arabic manuscripts in a critical edition by the Turkish Dr. Hussein Atai and published in Turkey, then in Cairo Egypt.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Translations exist also in Yiddish, French, Polish, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian, and Chinese. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Manuscripts">Manuscripts</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Guide_for_the_Perplexed&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Manuscripts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The earliest complete Judeo-Arabic copy of Maimonides' <i>Guide for the Perplexed</i>, copied in <a href="/wiki/Yemen" title="Yemen">Yemen</a> in 1380, was found in the <a href="/wiki/India_Office_Records" title="India Office Records">India Office Library</a> and added to the collection of the <a href="/wiki/British_Library" title="British Library">British Library</a> in 1992.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another manuscript, copied in 1396 on vellum and written in Spanish cursive script, but discovered in Yemen by bibliophile, <a href="/wiki/David_Solomon_Sassoon" title="David Solomon Sassoon">David Solomon Sassoon</a>, was formerly housed at the Sassoon Library in <a href="/wiki/Letchworth" title="Letchworth">Letchworth</a>, England, but has since been acquired by the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Toronto" title="University of Toronto">University of Toronto</a>. The manuscript has an introduction written by Samuel ibn Tibbon, and is nearly complete, with the exception of a lacuna between two of its pages. Containing a total of 496 pages, written in two columns of 23 lines to a column, with 229 illuminations, the manuscript has been described by David Solomon Sassoon in his <i>Descriptive Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the Sassoon Library</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the <a href="/wiki/Bodleian_Library" title="Bodleian Library">Bodleian Library</a> at Oxford University, England, there are at least fifteen incomplete copies and fragments of the original Arabic text, all described by <a href="/wiki/Adolf_Neubauer" title="Adolf Neubauer">Adolf Neubauer</a> in his <i>Catalogue of Hebrew Manuscripts</i>. Two <a href="/wiki/Leyden" class="mw-redirect" title="Leyden">Leyden</a> manuscripts (cod. 18 and 211) have also the original Arabic texts, as do various manuscripts of the <i>Bibliothèque Nationale</i> in Paris (No. 760, very old; 761 and 758, copied by Rabbi Saadia ibn Danan). A copy of the original Arabic text was also stored at the Berlin Royal Library (now <a href="/wiki/Berlin_State_Library" title="Berlin State Library">Berlin State Library</a>), under the category Ms. Or. Qu., 579 (105 in Catalogue of <a href="/wiki/Moritz_Steinschneider" title="Moritz Steinschneider">Moritz Steinschneider</a>); it is defective in the beginning and at the end.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hebrew translations of the Arabic texts, made by Samuel ibn Tibbon and <a href="/wiki/Yehuda_Alharizi" title="Yehuda Alharizi">Yehuda Alharizi</a>, albeit independently of each other, abound in university and state libraries. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Guide_for_the_Perplexed&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1259569809">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2007-10-11</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Moses+Maimonides.&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.encyclopaediajudaica.com%2Fsample-articles%2Farticle_view.php%3Fsid%3Dmoses-ben-maimon&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Guide+for+the+Perplexed" class="Z3988"></span> Second Edition, Volume 13, p. 388.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-WDL1-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-WDL1_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.wdl.org/en/item/3963/">"The Guide to the Perplexed"</a>. World Digital Library<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Makbili, Yohai (ed.). <i>Moreh haNevukhim</i> <bdi lang="he">מורה הנבוכים</bdi> (in Hebrew). Vol. 1. Translated by Gershuni, Hillel. Kedumim: Mishneh Torah Project. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-965-7743-05-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-965-7743-05-8"><bdi>978-965-7743-05-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Moreh+haNevukhim+%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%94+%D7%94%D7%A0%D7%91%D7%95%D7%9B%D7%99%D7%9D&rft.place=Kedumim&rft.pub=Mishneh+Torah+Project&rft.date=2018&rft.isbn=978-965-7743-05-8&rft.au=Maimonides&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Guide+for+the+Perplexed" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMaimonides1878–1890" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a href="/wiki/Maimonides" title="Maimonides">Maimonides</a> (1878–1890). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nli.org.il/he/books/NNL_ALEPH002526611/NLI?volumeItem=7"><i>A tévelygők útmutatója</i></a> (in Hungarian). 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Nagybecskerek: press of Ferenc Pál Pleitz and Zsigmond Jokly.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+t%C3%A9velyg%C5%91k+%C3%BAtmutat%C3%B3ja&rft.place=Nagybecskerek&rft.pub=press+of+Ferenc+P%C3%A1l+Pleitz+and+Zsigmond+Jokly&rft.date=1878%2F1890&rft.au=Maimonides&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nli.org.il%2Fhe%2Fbooks%2FNNL_ALEPH002526611%2FNLI%3FvolumeItem%3D7&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Guide+for+the+Perplexed" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMaimonides" class="citation book cs1">Maimonides. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/dalaltulhayereen/page/n2/mode/2up"><i>دلالة الحائرين</i></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=%D8%AF%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A9+%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86&rft.au=Maimonides&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fdalaltulhayereen%2Fpage%2Fn2%2Fmode%2F2up&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Guide+for+the+Perplexed" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTahan2008" class="citation journal cs1">Tahan, Ilana (2008). 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XI. The same manuscript had been in the possession of an Italian Jew in the fifteenth century.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-31">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>The Guide for the Perplexed</i>, by Moses Maimonides, M. Friedländer (ed.), 2nd edition, New York 1956, (Preface) p. xxviii <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0486203514" title="Special:BookSources/0486203514">0486203514</a></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Guide_for_the_Perplexed&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Joseph A. Buijs, Ed. <i>Maimonides: A Collection of Critical Essays</i>, University of Notre Dame Press 0268013675</li> <li>Marvin Fox. <i>Interpreting Maimonides</i>. University of Chicago Press, 1990 0226259420</li> <li>Lenn E. Goodman <i>Rambam: Readings in the Philosophy of Moses Maimonides</i>, Gee Bee Tee, 1985 0670589640</li> <li>Alfred Ivry <i>Providence, Divine Omniscience and Possibility: The Case of Maimonides</i> in "Divine Omniscience and Omnipotence in Medieval Philosophy" Ed. T. Rudavsky, 1985, D. Reidel Publishing Company. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-9027717504" title="Special:BookSources/978-9027717504">978-9027717504</a></li> <li>Hannah Kasher <i>Biblical Miracles and the Universality of Natural Laws: Maimonides' Three Methods of Harmonization</i> The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy Vol.8, pp. 25–52, 1998. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/search?fq=x0:jrnl&q=n2:1053-699X">1053-699X</a> (print) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/search?fq=x0:jrnl&q=n2:1477-285X">1477-285X</a> (online)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Menachem_Kellner" title="Menachem Kellner">Menachem Kellner</a>. <i>Dogma in Medieval Jewish Thought</i>, Oxford University Press, 1986. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0197100448" title="Special:BookSources/978-0197100448">978-0197100448</a></li> <li>Menachem Kellner <i>Maimonides' Allegiances to Science and Judaism</i> The Torah U-Madda Journal, Volume 7, 1997, Yeshiva University, pp. 88–104. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/search?fq=x0:jrnl&q=n2:1050-4745">1050-4745</a></li> <li>Menachem Kellner <i>Reading Rambam: Approaches to the Interpretation of Maimonides</i>, Jewish History, Vol.5(2) Fall 1991. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1007%2FBF01668933">10.1007/BF01668933</a></li> <li>Y. Tzvi Langermann, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.academia.edu/40409984/Rabbi_Yosef_Qafihs_Modern_Medieval_Translation_of_Maimonides_Guide_of_the_Perplexed">Rabbi Yosef Qafih's Modern Medieval Translation of the Guide</a></i> in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=YR2jDwAAQBAJ">Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed in Translation</a> (2019), pp. 257–278.</li> <li>Charles Manekin. <i>On Maimonides</i>, Thomson Wadsworth <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0534583835" title="Special:BookSources/978-0534583835">978-0534583835</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leo_Strauss" title="Leo Strauss">Leo Strauss</a>, <i>The Literary Character of the Guide for the Perplexed</i> This essay has been printed in a number of volumes, including Buijs's volume (above) and as a chapter in Strauss's own "Persecution in the Art of Writing". <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0226227887" title="Special:BookSources/978-0226227887">978-0226227887</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Guide_for_the_Perplexed&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1;min-width:0}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output .side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237033735">@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox{display:none!important}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}</style><div class="side-box side-box-right plainlinks sistersitebox"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/30px-Commons-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/45px-Commons-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/59px-Commons-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="1376" /></span></span></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist">Wikimedia Commons has media related to <span style="font-weight: bold; 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